Fatster’s Roundup

? “Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey . . . said the Obama administration should be given the chance to exhaust all diplomatic options to end the Syrian civil war, urging caution over calls for the U.S. to establish a no-fly zone in the country.”

? “China resettles two million Tibetans” into “socialist villages” where government plants “have been instructed to eat, live and work with the villagers . . . and [identify those] whose loyalty to the Party or the government is questionable.”

International Finance

? Austerity is not the road to prosperity. Case in point: “Ireland falls back into recession despite multibillion-euro austerity drive . . . Ireland has endured three successive quarters of recession.”